voters in Lubbock received these stickers Tuesday, showing they had cast their ballots.

Today I was conducting an interview on Texas Tech campus and took time to vote while there. A young woman behind me in line asked if she could take a picture of herself voting and was told she had to keep all electronics stashed away in her purse. Here's why.

According to Documenting the Vote 2012, "If you want to take photographs or shoot video inside your polling place, you must be cautious to avoid violating the law. Election laws are serious business – you could be removed from the polling place and even subject to criminal penalties.

"Some states like Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas expressly prohibit the use of photographic and recording equipment inside polling places. In addition, a majority of states have laws prohibiting the disclosure of your own marked ballot, although the details of these laws vary significantly."

Many of us are used to tweeting or Instagraming everyday activities or sights in our modern-day lives.

Huff Post reported as of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, more than 600,000 photographs with the hashtag #vote had already been posted on Instagram. Among those were numerous images of marked ballots.

Gizmodo reported that in New York, "Any person who...makes or keeps any memorandum of anything occurring within the booth, or directly or indirectly, reveals to another the name of any candidate voted for by such voter; or shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting, to any person so as to reveal the contents...is guilty of a misdemeanor." Ditto Florida, and the overwhelming majority of municipalities.